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Subchapter I - General Provisions
§ 46–351.01. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act - This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Family...
§ 46–351.02. Definitions - In this chapter: (1) “Child” means an individual, whether over...
§ 46–351.03. Tribunal and support enforcement agency of the District - (a) The Family Division of the Superior Court of the...
§ 46–351.04. Remedies cumulative - (a) Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do...
§ 46–351.05. Application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding - (a) A tribunal of the District shall apply subchapters I...
Subchapter II - Jurisdiction
§ 46–352.01. Personal jurisdiction over nonresident individual - (a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support...
§ 46–352.02. Duration of personal jurisdiction - Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of the District in...
§ 46–352.03. Initiating and responding tribunal of state - Under this chapter, a tribunal of the District may serve...
§ 46–352.04. Simultaneous proceedings - (a) A tribunal of the District may exercise jurisdiction to...
§ 46–352.05. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child-support order - (a) A tribunal of the District that has issued a...
§ 46–352.06. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order - (a) A tribunal of the District that has issued a...
§ 46–352.07. Determination of controlling child-support order - (a) If a proceeding is brought under this chapter and...
§ 46–352.08. Child-support orders for 2 or more obligees - In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of 2...
§ 46–352.09. Credit for payments - A tribunal of the District shall credit amounts collected for...
§ 46–352.10. Application of chapter to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction - A tribunal of the District exercising personal jurisdiction over a...
§ 46–352.11. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal-support order - (a) A tribunal of the District issuing a spousal-support order...
Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application
§ 46–353.01. Proceedings under chapter - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this subchapter...
§ 46–353.02. Proceeding by minor parent - A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative...
§ 46–353.03. Application of law of the District - Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal...
§ 46–353.04. Duties of initiating tribunal - (a) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this...
§ 46–353.05. Duties and powers of responding tribunal - (a) When a responding tribunal of the District receives a...
§ 46–353.06. Inappropriate tribunal - If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an...
§ 46–353.07. Duties of support enforcement agency - (a) In a proceeding under this chapter, a support enforcement...
§ 46–353.08. Duty of Office of the Attorney General - The Office of the Attorney General may determine that a...
§ 46–353.09. Private counsel - An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual...
§ 46–353.10. Duties of Office of the Attorney General as state information agency - (a) The Office of the Attorney General is the state...
§ 46–353.11. Pleadings and accompanying documents - (a) In a proceeding under this chapter, a petitioner seeking...
§ 46–353.12. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances - If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading...
§ 46–353.13. Costs and fees - (a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a...
§ 46–353.14. Limited immunity of petitioner - (a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this...
§ 46–353.15. Nonparentage as defense - A party whose parentage of a child has been previously...
§ 46–353.16. Special rules of evidence and procedure - (a) The physical presence of a nonresident party who is...
§ 46–353.17. Communications between tribunals - A tribunal of the District may communicate with a tribunal...
§ 46–353.18. Assistance with discovery - A tribunal of the District may: (1) Request a tribunal...
§ 46–353.19. Receipt and disbursement of payments - (a) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of the District...
Subchapter IV - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage
§ 46–354.01. Establishment of support order - (a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this...
§ 46–354.02. Proceeding to determine parentage - A tribunal of the District authorized to determine parentage of...
Subchapter V - Enforcement of Support Order without Registration
§ 46–355.01. Employer’s receipt of income-withholding order of another state - An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent...
§ 46–355.02. Employer’s compliance with income-withholding order of another state - (a) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor’s employer...
§ 46–355.03. Employer’s compliance with 2 or more income-withholding orders - If an obligor’s employer receives 2 or more income-withholding orders...
§ 46–355.04. Immunity from civil liability - An employer that complies with an income-withholding order issued in...
§ 46–355.05. Penalties for noncompliance - An employer that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding...
§ 46–355.06. Contest by obligor - (a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of...
§ 46–355.07. Administrative enforcement of orders - (a) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce...
Subchapter VI - Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order
Part A - Registration for Enforcement of Support Order
§ 46–356.01. Registration of order for enforcement - A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state...
§ 46–356.02. Procedure to register order for enforcement - (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 46-357.06, a support...
§ 46–356.03. Effect of registration for enforcement - (a) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another...
§ 46–356.04. Choice of law - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this...
§ 46–356.05. Notice of registration of order - (a) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in...
§ 46–356.06. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order - (a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or...
§ 46–356.07. Contest of registration or enforcement - (a) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a...
§ 46–356.08. Confirmed order - Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of...
§ 46–356.09. Procedure to register child-support order of another state for modification - A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or...
§ 46–356.10. Effect of registration for modification - A tribunal of the District may enforce a child-support order...
§ 46–356.11. Modification of child-support order of another state - (a) If § 46-356.13 does not apply, upon petition a...
§ 46–356.12. Recognition of order modified in another state - If a child-support order issued by a tribunal of the...
§ 46–356.13. Jurisdiction to modify child-support order of another state when individual parties reside in the District - (a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside...
§ 46–356.14. Notice to issuing tribunal of modification - Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child-support order,...
Part D - Registration and Modification of Foreign Child-Support Order
§ 46–356.15. Jurisdiction to modify child-support order of foreign country - (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 46-357.11, if a...
§ 46–356.16. Procedure to register child-support order of foreign country for modification - A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or...
§ 46–357.01. Definitions - In this subchapter: (1) “Application” means a request under the...
§ 46–357.02. Applicability - This subchapter applies only to a support proceeding under the...
§ 46–357.03. Relationship of Office of the Attorney General to United States central authority - The Office of the Attorney General is recognized as the...
§ 46–357.04. Initiation by Office of the Attorney General of support proceeding under Convention - (a) In a support proceeding under this subchapter, the Office...
§ 46–357.05. Direct request - (a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment...
§ 46–357.06. Registration of Convention support order - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a party...
§ 46–357.07. Contest of registered convention support order - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, §§ 46-356.05...
§ 46–357.08. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this...
§ 46–357.09. Partial enforcement - If a tribunal of the District does not recognize and...
§ 46–357.10. Foreign support agreement - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d)...
§ 46–357.11. Modification of convention child-support order - (a) A tribunal of the District may not modify a...
§ 46–357.12. Personal information; limit on use - Personal information gathered or transmitted under this subchapter may be...
§ 46–357.13. Record in original language; English translation - A record filed with a tribunal of the District under...
§ 46–358.01. Grounds for rendition - (a) For purposes of this subchapter, “governor” includes an individual...
§ 46–358.02. Conditions of rendition - (a) Before making a demand that the governor of another...
§ 46–359.01. Uniformity of application and construction - In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be...
§ 46–359.02. [Reserved] - Section 902 of D.C. Law 21-73 repealed Chapter 3 of...
§ 46–359.03. Applicability - This chapter applies to proceedings begun on or after February...